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I'll have to get checked next time I'm at the doc. I'm pretty far south, so sunlight isn't normally an issue. I also enjoy a glass of milk every night for 'dess

I'll have to get checked next time I'm at the doc. I'm pretty far south, so sunlight isn't normally an issue. I also enjoy a glass of milk every night for 'dessert'. It is fortified with some vitamin D, but I'm not sure how much. My bigger concern is probably skin cancer over lack of vitamin D though.

bagacrap 7y ago
the benefits of sunlight outweigh the risks. Avoid burning, but know that tanning is not correlated with melanoma (assuming you have skin that tans; otherwise, ignore this).
- retsibsi 7y ago
  > tanning is not correlated with melanoma This conflicts with what I've always been taught, and with every high google result for 'tanning skin cancer'. (I'm in Australia, where the sun is especially damaging; but I'd be surprised if tanning were very dangerous here but fine elsewhere, and in any case the search results were not all local.) What are you basing it on?
  - WillPostForFood 7y ago
    It gets complicated. Sunburn (occasional high dose of sun) is unequivocally bad, and highly correlated with skin cancer. Regular, moderate exposure (could be described as tanning) is correlated to lower risk of cancer than getting little sun. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6313493/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6313493/ An examination of the current state of the scientific research shows that (i) severe sunburns are linked to increased risk of melanoma but non-burning sun exposure is linked to reduced risk of melanoma